On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Pingfan Liu wrote: > At present, both return and crash_size should be checked to guarantee the > success of parse_crashkernel(). > Simplify the way by returning negative if fail, positive if success. In > case of failure, -EINVAL for bad syntax, -1 for the parsing results in > crash_size=0. I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to say here, but '-1' is not an improvement at all. We surely are not short of proper error codes, right? Also I don't see any positive return value > 0. So what is this about: > --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c > +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c > @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static void __init setup_crashkernel(unsigned long total, int *n) > > ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, total, > &size, &base); > - if (ret == 0 && size > 0) { > + if (ret >= 0) { ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ???? > if (!memory_region_available(crash_base, crash_size)) { > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c > index 45a8d0b..0b626e2 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c > @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static inline unsigned long fadump_calculate_reserve_size(void) > */ > ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(), > &size, &base); > - if (ret == 0 && size > 0) { > + if (ret >= 0) { and this ? > unsigned long max_size; > > if (fw_dump.reserve_bootvar) > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c > index 63f5a93..9f3e61a 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c > @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) > /* use common parsing */ > ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(), > &crash_size, &crash_base); > - if (ret == 0 && crash_size > 0) { > + if (ret >= 0) { Again. > crashk_res.start = crash_base; > crashk_res.end = crash_base + crash_size - 1; > } > --- a/arch/sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c > +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c > @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) > > ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(), > &crash_size, &crash_base); > - if (ret == 0 && crash_size > 0) { > + if (ret >= 0) { And some more. > crashk_res.start = crash_base; > crashk_res.end = crash_base + crash_size - 1; > } > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c > index 3d872a5..62d07d4 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c > @@ -526,11 +526,11 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) > > /* crashkernel=XM */ > ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, total_mem, &crash_size, &crash_base); > - if (ret != 0 || crash_size <= 0) { > + if (ret == -EINVAL) { Without an explanation why this proceedes on error codes other than EINVAL this is uncomprehensible. Comments exist for a reason. > /* crashkernel=X,high */ > ret = parse_crashkernel_high(boot_command_line, total_mem, > &crash_size, &crash_base); > - if (ret != 0 || crash_size <= 0) > + if (ret < 0) > return; > high = true; > @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem(char *cmdline, > cur = tmp; > if (size >= system_ram) { > pr_warn("crashkernel: invalid size\n"); > - return -EINVAL; > + return -1; Well, this is incomprehensible as well. The pr_warn() says invalid and then you change the error code to something magic. Thanks, tglx